ABOUT THE JOURNAL

• Scope of journal |
• Overall aims and content |
• Abstracted/indexed in |
• ISSN and eISSN |
• Editors |

Scope of journal

Knowledge management is a term that has worked its way into the mainstream of both academic and business arenas since it was first coined in the 1980s. Interest has increased rapidly during the last decade and shows no signs of abating. The current state of the knowledge management field is that it encompasses four overlapping areas:

• Managing knowledge (creating/acquiring, sharing, retaining, storing, using, updating, retiring)
• Organisational learning
• Intellectual capital
• Knowledge economics

Within (and across) these, knowledge management has to address issues relating to technology, people, culture and systems.

Perhaps as a consequence of this diversity, the knowledge management literature is at present fragmented. Many of the most influential articles on knowledge management appear in journals in fields as diverse as information systems, general management, strategy, organisational sociology or human resources. The literature also often, somewhat misleadingly, presents the subject as split. Current examples of these "splits", which should rather be debates, include those between the "codification" and "collaboration" schools of thought, and between "Western" (meaning North American) and "Eastern" (meaning Japanese) approaches. The intention for this journal is not only to accommodate these and other perspectives, but also to seek common ground between them.

Overall aims and content

To provide an outlet for high-quality, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of managing knowledge. This will include not just those focused on the organisational level, but all levels from that of the individual to that of the nation or profession. This will include both theoretical and practical aspects, and especially the relationship between the two. There will be a particular emphasis on cross-disciplinary approaches, and on the mixing of "hard" (e.g. technological) and "soft" (e.g. cultural or motivational) issues. Rigorous contributions from both academics and practitioners are welcomed.

Articles may be empirical research papers, theoretical papers, conceptual papers, case studies or surveys.

KMRP will fill the need for a journal specifically concentrating on knowledge management that maintains the highest standards of rigour, and publishes articles that reflect greater multidisciplinary work and/or conceptual integration than those currently published in existing outlets.

A cross-disciplinary focus will also enable articles in the journal to address other important tensions in the field of knowledge management, such as those between:

• Strategy and operations
• People and technology
• Short-term and long-term needs
• The organisation and the individual

Abstracted/indexed in

Knowledge Management Research & Practice is abstracted and indexed in:

• Association of Business Schools' Academic Journal Quality Guide (www.the-abs.org.uk)
• Compendex (Elsevier)
• EMBASE (Elsevier)
• EMNursing (Elsevier)
• GEOBASE (Elsevier)
• IBZ - International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences
• IBR - International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• Mosby Yearbooks (Elsevier)
• Scopus (Elsevier)

ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Knowledge Management Research & Practice is 1477-8238 and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1477-8246.

Editors

Editor

John S. Edwards, Aston University, UK

Regional Editors

Sven Carlsson, Informatics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden
Meliha Handzic, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mark Nissen, US Naval Postgraduate School, USA

Editorial Board

Daniel G. Andriessen, INHOLLAND University of Professional Education, The Netherlands
Max Boisot, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Frada Burstein, Monash University, Australia
Patrick Callioni, AGIMO, Australia
Sven Carlsson, Lund University
Danièle Chauvel, China-Associates, France
Steve Clarke, University of Hull Business School, UK
Con Connell, University of Southampton, UK
Charles Despres, Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Métiers, France
Carl Frappaolo, AIIM International, USA
Helen Hasan, University of Wollongong, Australia
Clyde Holsapple, University of Kentucky, USA
George Huber, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Sherif Kamel, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Brian Lehaney, Coventry University, UK
Jay Liebowitz, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Deependra Moitra, Bangalore, India
Heiner Müller-Merbach, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
Ikujiro Nonaka, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Rajesh Pillania, MDI Gurgaon, India
John Politis, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Harry Scarbrough, University of Warwick, UK
Graeme Shanks, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dave Snowden, Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd, UK
Eric Tsui, Computer Sciences Corporation and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
José Viedma Martí, Intellectual Capital Management Systems, Spain
Anthony Wensley, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada
George Widmeyer, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA